Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-04-09
General Notes.

SEeneraI Notes.
The Nav term of the First District
Court which it was at one time appre-
hended by our hotel men, restaurateurs
and other business men, would be held
in Logan, will open in this city on May
%, when mountain of legal business
will have to be elm bed Mr. H. H.
Henderson, the new clerk, is getting hi S
desk ready for the multifurious and re-
spOnSible duties.
The condition OF Hon Lorin Farr, al
though no longer so absorbing a topic as
week ago, is still inquired after. The
gentleman is about holding his own, and
his not losing any ground is fair sign
that hopes OF his ultimate recovery are
not unfounded.
The meeting OF the Loyal League last
night furnished evidence that the leaven
is working. Though there is no blowing
of horns or sounding OF brass, the good
work for the redemption OF Utah, politi-
cally, is prosecuted on "this line" if it
takes all summer.
Jas. b. Stoddard, the young scion of a
polygImous household, who has taken a
vigorous stand against the twin relic of
barbarism and its allied evil of priest
craft and superstition, is thinking OF
handling the labor question Oh the pub
lie rOstrum.
Giesy d Sparse contemplate moving
ont OF their present quarters one door
north, where Lamont erik has his gem
eral merchandise store, as soon rs that
gentleman occupies his own new brick
block on Fifth Street. II may be by the
first OF May.
Henry Tribe is in town again.
There will be a holiday at the Sacred
Heart Academy and st. Joseph's School,
next Monday.
Mr. Deprezin, the Nebraska gentle
man who upon representations of his
friend, Mr.. Z. Mason, determined to
avail himself of the brilliant prospects for
investment and settlement in Ogden,
has brought his family here, temporarily
staying at the Chapman House He is
about erecting a store building on lower
Fifth street, nearly opposite the hotel
mentioned, having purchased the two
little frame houses OF old man Hart, the
shoemaker.
This forenoon Rev. G. G. Davis, of the
Episcopal Church, left for Logan to con-
duct the Easter services of his CO.
religionists in the pretty capital of Cache
county. Rev. Philip Med. Blocker, the
resident minister, is in New York
afflicted with wearisome illness, from
which we wish him speedy recovery.
"Old Prattle" no longer goes his usual
rounds in our midst After twenty-four
years Of eventful sojourn in our midst, he
has hidden us adieu and gone East.
Who in Salt Lake City, as well as at the
Junction, does not know Henry o. Pratt,
the Nestor of telegraphers in the inter
mountain country? He came with the
frs wire and touched the first key, oc-
cupied high position, passed through
thick and thin" as the saying is, had his
up and downs, but now is up again. lie
has gone to Marshall, Mich, to assist IN
a,Sentangling the mixed up state OF
AFFAIRS OF three large estates, all of whose
'"herS are dead, and into which only he
can throw the light necessary for liqulda-
'Ioh' Jaie, old fellow
John A. Dix Post, No. 5, Grand Army
Vi the Republic, are making timely prep
araIlons Tor a worthy celebration of
Memorial Day May 30th) which falls
TINS In year on the Monday after Pentecost.
Tins will be the sixth public celebration
OF this day of the dead, the beautiful OBJ.
servation of which in this city is due 10
the gallant boys in blue.
Chas. Stofel, of Helena, and Henry
Heider, of Anaconda, came down from
the north last evening on their way to
Evanston, Wyo., whether they have been
subpenaed to appear as witnesses in the
murder trial of John Bonner, accused of